17.05.2012 [BBC News] - The Mary Rose was one of the earliest ships to carry heavy guns. She was a favourite of King Henry VIII and sank off Show more… Portsmouth in 1545 during an engagement with a French invasion fleet, in full view of the King, the screams of the men

10.05.2012 [TIME] - For Henry's part, a plank from his famed naval warship Mary Rose was spliced into the boat. Hendrix, who lived in London from the mid-1960s until his death in 1970, contributed a piece of one of his guitars –a small shaving from a British-built 1960